This Halloween Greensboro, North Carolina will be hosting one of the largest and best Hbcu home comings ever. Students, parents, and alumni will be coming in town from all over to partake in this unforgetable event. http://http//www.ncat.edu/~newsinfo/homecoming/2009/
There will be functions all week to attend, but the main function the students wait and really prepare for, is the after party at the clubs. Many of Greensboro’s clubs will be live that weekend but everyone is trying to get to one club, Music City.
Music city located on Boeing drive is expected to reach its maximum capacity of 1,800 people that weekend. Music city is a large club facility with the square footage of 3,400; it’s an old ware house that has been transformed into a genuine club scene since the late 1990’s. The average price for club entry on the occasional weekends and weekdays vary from $5 to $10, however admission prices over the years during homecoming time have been a minimum of $20 for entry. Since Halloween night is known to be a night of tricks and treats, the clubs must prepare and take precautions for whatever violent and unruly acts that occur.
Around homecoming students tend to let their guards down as far as safety, but this also seems to be the time of year when a lot of students get into trouble. Fights and verbal altercations usually occur more often during this time, because students are consuming large amounts of alcohol. The most common place for altercations to arise is in nightclubs.
“I thought about going to Music City for homecoming, but I think a fight is going to break out”, says sophomore Hope Fletcher. Hope is not the only student concerned with her safety at the club, there have been recent incidents, including assaults that put doubts in many students minds about going. Club owner Marcus Glavsby tries to ease student’s minds by expressing the actions that will be taken by the club to promote tighter security. “The lines will be heavily monitored; each person will be searched from head to toe including females, because we usually just let them walk through, but not this time.”
It is also said that if found with any type of weapons at the door, they will be immediately discarded and you will be asked to leave. After continuing the conversation, in a calm and relaxed tone Marcus says, “I know that we can not control verbal and physical fights that break out, but when and if they do, my security staff is very well prepared to act and remove all people associated with the confrontation.” The security staff for the whole week from October
28 through the 31rst, will be at the least 30 men on duty. Marcus does not expect the behavior of the club to be very unruly because he knows that everyone just wants to have a goodtime and get their monies worth. Brittany Lockswelsh says excitedly “I have been going every year since I have been here, and yes I have paid at the least $35 to get in on those nights, but I always enjoy myself and a few fight have broke out, but the security guards quickly eliminate the problem…….and I go rite back to partying! Nothing is going to stop me from going.”
North Carolina A&T could not have picked a better night for homecoming to fall on, all the students should just prepare themselves and be cautious of their surroundings at all times.The school has prepared a saftey precaution list for on campus activities, but is still useful if you are off campus also at http://http//www.ncat.edu/~newsinfo/announcements/safety.html
There will be functions all week to attend, but the main function the students wait and really prepare for, is the after party at the clubs. Many of Greensboro’s clubs will be live that weekend but everyone is trying to get to one club, Music City.
Music city located on Boeing drive is expected to reach its maximum capacity of 1,800 people that weekend. Music city is a large club facility with the square footage of 3,400; it’s an old ware house that has been transformed into a genuine club scene since the late 1990’s. The average price for club entry on the occasional weekends and weekdays vary from $5 to $10, however admission prices over the years during homecoming time have been a minimum of $20 for entry. Since Halloween night is known to be a night of tricks and treats, the clubs must prepare and take precautions for whatever violent and unruly acts that occur.
Around homecoming students tend to let their guards down as far as safety, but this also seems to be the time of year when a lot of students get into trouble. Fights and verbal altercations usually occur more often during this time, because students are consuming large amounts of alcohol. The most common place for altercations to arise is in nightclubs.
“I thought about going to Music City for homecoming, but I think a fight is going to break out”, says sophomore Hope Fletcher. Hope is not the only student concerned with her safety at the club, there have been recent incidents, including assaults that put doubts in many students minds about going. Club owner Marcus Glavsby tries to ease student’s minds by expressing the actions that will be taken by the club to promote tighter security. “The lines will be heavily monitored; each person will be searched from head to toe including females, because we usually just let them walk through, but not this time.”
It is also said that if found with any type of weapons at the door, they will be immediately discarded and you will be asked to leave. After continuing the conversation, in a calm and relaxed tone Marcus says, “I know that we can not control verbal and physical fights that break out, but when and if they do, my security staff is very well prepared to act and remove all people associated with the confrontation.” The security staff for the whole week from October
28 through the 31rst, will be at the least 30 men on duty. Marcus does not expect the behavior of the club to be very unruly because he knows that everyone just wants to have a goodtime and get their monies worth. Brittany Lockswelsh says excitedly “I have been going every year since I have been here, and yes I have paid at the least $35 to get in on those nights, but I always enjoy myself and a few fight have broke out, but the security guards quickly eliminate the problem…….and I go rite back to partying! Nothing is going to stop me from going.”North Carolina A&T could not have picked a better night for homecoming to fall on, all the students should just prepare themselves and be cautious of their surroundings at all times.The school has prepared a saftey precaution list for on campus activities, but is still useful if you are off campus also at http://http//www.ncat.edu/~newsinfo/announcements/safety.html
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